Video Premiere: Korby Lenker shares the powerful "I Feel What I Feel"

Singer. Songwriter. Actor. Author. Now, Korby Lenker ventures to explore further creative territory, helming a brand new web series entitled Morse Code. Having made its debut on August 3rd, Morse Code follows Lenker as he portrays Simon Pinkerton, a single dad and a "smart-but-dumb folksinger trying to make good in the modern music business without alienating everyone around him."

Having earned praise for the first two charming and heartfelt episodes, Lenker has plans for an additional eight installments of the dramedy, each accompanied by a new song. For the first episode, he and Liz Longley wrote and performed the folk-pop tune "If You Love Somebody."​

Episode 2, which premiered in September at AmericanaFest, found Lenker teaming with Holly Mathis to pen the sober and sincere "I Feel What I Feel." And today, TDC is thrilled and honored to debut the Cody Duncam directed video for the track which captures Simon as a man who is lonely, pensive, and seemingly resigned to sadness and dwelling on the negative. Via Lenker's emotional delivery, sincere lyrics, and a despondent yet somehow comforting piano-led melody, "I Feel What I Feel" acknowledges emotions are neither right or wrong, they just are, and sometimes we have to work through them at our own pace....even if it means staying in that dark place for a short while.

"Here we are it's me against me
Hello to the adversary
Don't move slow, keep your hands up
I punch low, can you handle it?
Where'd it go all that hope sparkling f
For now I see through glass darkly
We make it up as we go along that brought us right or wrong
here, here, here"

Lenker offers insight into the song and video,
"Part of the challenge of "Morse Code" is that I need write songs about the characters in the show, instead of drawing them directly from my life. It’s a small distance but it's created a kind of vulnerable way of writing I didn’t expect. “I Feel What I Feel” (out on Soundly Music October 12) is an example of that.

When I wrote the script for episode two, I knew the main charter, Simon, was going to be in a dark place at the end of it — having just suffered a public humiliation and then been abandoned by one of his closest friends. 

But at this moment in the story, Simon is stuck in a sort of willful loneliness — wanting to be left alone more than he wants to be saved. It’s a feeling I’ve known personally at points in my life, so the theme of “I Feel What I Feel" came easily. 

I came up with something I liked on piano, but was having a hard time making the verse really sing so I reached out to my friend Holly Mathis. Holly is weirdly gifted with what seems like endless clever ideas, so we spent about a month while I was on tour and she was at home texting back and forth and singing into our phones until we finally came up with something that felt right.

I recorded it on my little home piano (pictured in the video) and brought it in to the studio to finish. Tim Lauer, who created the score for Morse Code (and who just came from his last job as executive music producer on the “Nashville” TV show), produced the song.

For the video, I was lucky to include the talents of "Morse Code" co-star Maggie Schneider. She is so good in the show and here she was in the video wearing that same compelling tension between innocence and an early-onset wisdom. 

This is a music video that kind of blurs the lines between the script and the music, something I hope to continue to explore in future episodes."

"I Feel What I Feel" will be available everywhere October 12th.

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Watch Morse Code Episode 1 HERE and Episode 2 HERE 
Other cast members include Maggie Schneider, Olivia Evans and Sara Antonio